nm-cloud-setup automatically detects routes, addresses and rules and configures them
on the device using the emphermal Reapply() API. That is, it does not modify the
existing profile (on disk), but changes the runtime configuration only.
As such, it used to wipe otherwise statically configured IP addresses, routes and
rules. That seems unnecessary. Let's keep the configuration from the (persistent)
configuration.
There is of course the problem that nm-cloud-setup doesn't really
understand the existing IP configuration, and it can only hope that
it can be meaningfully combined with what nm-cloud-setup wants to
configure. This should cover most simple cases, for more complex setups,
the user probably should disable nm-cloud-setup and configure the
network explicitly to their liking.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1971527https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/893
The code never set "iface_get_config->cidr_addr", despite
setting "cidr_prefix" and "has_cidr". As a result, cloud-setup
would think that the subnet is "0.0.0.0/$PLEN", and calculate
the gateway as "0.0.0.1".
As a result it would add a default route to table 30400 via 0.0.0.1,
which is obviously wrong.
How to detect the right gateway? Let's try obtain the subnet also via
the meta data. That seems mostly correct, except that we only access
subnet at index 0. What if there are multiple ones? I don't know.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1912236